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Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for? Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB? If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?
Just think of cloud hosting as the next generation of VPS hosting.
Their idea is provide a powerful, scaleable platform quickly and easily. Their mentality is called NoOps (http://blog.appfog.com/what-is-noops-anyhow/). It's a cheesy marketing term, and pissed a lot of people off, but it's pretty spot on for what their service offers.
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Uhh, scaling issues?
Im really not sure about the pricing model. Here are a couple of points: There are tons of people looking for $5 vps that have like 500mb on ram. Your pricing structure will be like a magnet for those type of people. I dont think may of those people will upgrade to a $100 a month plan though. As with the point above, you are relying to heavily on the people who have bought into the system at the free plan and now hav…
Im really not sure about the pricing model. Here are a couple of points: There are tons of people looking for $5 vps that have like 500mb on ram. Your pricing structure will be like a magnet for those type of people. I dont think may of those people will upgrade to a $100 a month plan though. As with the point above, you are relying to heavily on the people who have bought into the system at the free plan and now hav…
If you're using OS X or Linux, just run these 3 commands in a Terminal:
sudo gem install af af login af update [appname]
to upload your app.
See here for more details http://blog.appfog.com/getting-started-with-appfogs-command-...
But you can get started with things like Wordpress or Drupal without touching the appfog client, see here for a list of "jumpstarts"
https://console.appfog.com/pricing 2GB RAM FREE | 4GB RAM $100/month | 16GB RAM $380/month | 32GB RAM $720/month | More if you contact AppFog Scaling your app is free, choosing multiple infrastructures is free, custom domains are free, fastest available servers in the infrastructures
on the other hand, ovh offers dedicated servers for: 16GB RAM £70/month 24GB RAM £100/month 24GB RAM £180/month 64GB RAM £260/month http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/
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A thousand words, or 30 seconds start to finish of deploying a Ruby app yourself on AppFog - https://console.appfog.com/signup
I registered as you suggested. I agree that getting productive in 10-15 minutes is great, but the setup time, at least for me, even if it takes a whole day, is a negligible overhead in my life as a programmer. Currently I run multiple servers on Amazon and as someone that programs in more than two languages, I drop an instance of whatever I am working on (Ruby, Java, Django as examples) and they really do not take mu…
You ask them to deploy a (for example) MongoDB service, they do it, and they are responsible for the operation of it.
The idea is to reduce the amount of day to day (or more likely month to month) work involved in doing things like security patches, upgrading infrastructure, etc, that suck up a lot of time, especially for people who don't have experience in building load balancers and so on.
Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for? Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB? If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?
Those Linux instances are hosted on one of multiple providers (your choice), for example Amazon, Rackspace, HP Cloud, etc.
AppFog wants to make developer platforms load slowly and be so disorganized and haphazard that you can't tell what's going on... great.
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I registered as you suggested. I agree that getting productive in 10-15 minutes is great, but the setup time, at least for me, even if it takes a whole day, is a negligible overhead in my life as a programmer. Currently I run multiple servers on Amazon and as someone that programs in more than two languages, I drop an instance of whatever I am working on (Ruby, Java, Django as examples) and they really do not take mu…
AppFog handle things like software updates, scaling beyond one machine, DDoS attacks, all those kind of things. You ask them to deploy a (for example) MongoDB service, they do it, and they are responsible for the operation of it. The idea is to reduce the amount of day to day (or more likely month to month) work involved in doing things like security patches, upgrading infrastructure, etc, that suck up a lot of time,…
[1] Cloud Foundry(and by implication AppFog) differentiate apps from services, where services are backend infra like databases.